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"I won't," promised Bunny.
Watching the seals was fun, and Bunny and Sue had a good time there, until it was time to go out of the aquarium for dinner. The children had a nice meal, in a restaurant, and Aunt Lu said:
"I think this afternoon we will take a little ride on the boat to Coney Island. You children can have an ocean bath there. It is getting on toward fall, I know, but it is all the nicer down at the beach, and there won't be such crowds there as in real hot weather."
"Oh, won't it be fun to paddle in the water again!" cried Sue.
"That's what it will!" said Bunny Brown.
The place to take the boat for Coney Island was two or three blocks from the restaurant where they had eaten lunch. Bunny and Sue walked behind Mother Brown and Aunt Lu along the street to the boat-dock.
"This is just like home," said Bunny as he saw the water-front, with many boats tied up along the docks, just as they were at his father's pier at home.
Sue liked it, too. There were many things to see. In one window the children saw a number of monkeys, and birds with brightly colored feathers.
"Oh, let's stop and look at them!" cried Sue. Bunny was willing, so they stood looking in the window. Mrs. Brown and Aunt Lu, thinking the children were coming right along, walked on. And it was not until they were ready to cross the street that the mother and aunt missed the little ones.
"Why, where can they have gone?" cried Mrs. Brown, looking all around.
"Oh, they're just walking slowly, behind us," Aunt Lu said. "We'll go back and find them."
She and her sister walked back, but they could not see Bunny and Sue.
"Oh, where are they?" cried Mrs. Brown. "My children are lost! Lost in New York! Oh dear!"
Chapter XVII
At The Police Station
Bunny Brown, and his sister Sue, standing in front of the window where the monkeys and birds were, in cages, had forgotten all about Mother Brown and Aunt Lu. All the children thought of was watching the funny things the monkeys did, for there were three of the long-tailed animals in one cage, and they seemed to be pla...
"Oh, Bunny!" said Sue, "this must be where the hand-organ men get their monkeys."
"Maybe," Bunny agreed. "But hand-organ monkeys have red caps on, and wear green coats, and these monkeys haven't anything on."
"Maybe they make caps and jackets for them from the birds' feathers," Sue said.
"Maybe," agreed Bunny. Certainly the feathers of the birds were red and green, just the colors of the caps and jackets the monkeys wore.
"I wonder if the man would give us a monkey?" Sue said, as she pressed her little nose flat against the window glass, so she would miss nothing of what went on in the store.
"Maybe he would, or we could save up and buy one," Bunny answered.
"Monkeys don't cost much I guess. 'Cause hand-organ mens isn't very rich, and they always have one. I'd like a parrot, too," said Sue.
"Yes, a parrot is better than a doll, for a parrot can talk."
"A parrot is not better than a doll!" Sue cried.
"Yes it is," said Bunny. "It's alive, too, and a doll isn't."
"Well, I can make believe my doll is alive," said Sue. "Anyhow, Bunny Brown, you can't have a parrot or a monkey, 'cause Henry, the elevator boy, won't let 'em come inside Aunt Lu's house."
"That's so," Bunny agreed. "Well, anyhow, we can go in and ask how much they cost, and we can save up our money and buy one when we go home. We aren't always going to stay at Aunt Lu's. And our dog, Splash, would like a monkey and a parrot."
"Yes," said Sue, "he would. All right, we'll go in and ask how much they is."
Hand in hand, never thinking about their aunt and their mother, Bunny and Sue went into the animal store, in the window of which were the monkeys and the parrots. Once inside, the children saw so many other things -- chickens, ducks, goldfish, rabbits, squirrels, pigeons and dogs -- that they were quite delighted.
"Why -- why!" cried Sue, "it's just like Central Park, Bunny!"
"Almost!" said the little boy. "Oh, Sue. Look at the squirrel on the merry-go-'round!"
In a cage on the counter, behind which stood an old man, was a bushy-tailed squirrel, and he was going around and around in a sort of wire wheel. It was like a small merry-go-'round, except that it did not whirl in just the same way.
"What do you want, children?" asked the old man who kept the animal store.
"We -- we'd like a monkey, if it doesn't cost too much," said Bunny.
"And a parrot, too. Don't forget the parrot, Bunny," whispered Sue. "We want a parrot that can talk."
"And how much is a parrot, too?" asked Bunny.
The old man smiled at the children. Then he said:
"Well, parrots and monkeys cost more than you think. A parrot that can talk well costs about ten dollars!"
Bunny looked at Sue and Sue looked at Bunny. They had never thought a parrot cost as much as that. Bunny had thought about twenty-five cents, and Sue about ten.
"Well," said Bunny with a sigh, "I guess we can't get a parrot."
"Does one that can't talk cost as much as that?" Sue wanted to know.
"Well, not quite, but almost, for they soon learn to talk, you know," answered the nice old man.
"How much are monkeys?" asked Bunny. It was almost as if he had gone into Mrs. Redden's store at home, and asked how much were lollypops.
"Well, monkeys cost more than parrots," said the old man.
"Oh, dear!" sighed Bunny. "I -- I guess we can't ever save up enough to get one."
"No, I guess not," agreed Sue.
The old man smiled in such a nice way that Bunny and Sue felt sure he would be good and kind. He was almost like Uncle Tad.